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In early 2006, a start-up company launched a small rocket from a tiny island in the Pacific. It exploded, showering the island with debris. A year later, a second launch attempt sent a rocket to space but failed to make orbit, burning up in the atmosphere. Another year brought a third attempt—and a third failure. The following month, in September 2008, the company used the last of its funds to launch a fourth rocket. It reached orbit, making history as the first privately funded liquid-fueled rocket to do so.
E. E. Anderson, G. L. Wessman, L. R. Zumwalt
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 12 | Number 1 | January 1962 | Pages 106-110
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A25377
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High-temperature, gas-cooled, graphite-moderated reactors of the type represented by the HTGR feature a continuous removal of volatile fission products by, and their subsequent trapping from, a helium purge stream. Cesium is a volatile fission product of considerable interest; therefore, an investigation of the specific sorption (gm Cs /gm C) of activated charcoal as a function of temperature and pressure was undertaken. The experimental approach was to use Cs137-tagged metal of known specific activity whereby the amount of cesium sorbed on charcoal could be determined in situ by a calibrated gamma-ray spectrometer system. Cesium adsorption on activated charcoal was found to follow the Freundlich adsorption equation. Isosteric heats of adsorption are given as functions of specific adsorption. The free energy of adsorption was found to be a linear function of the specific adsorption only, thus leading to a method of determining the adsorption isobars and isotherms from a minimum of data.
